@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] As we grow older, we tend to become more comfortable in ourselves and what we’re about. Manifested positively, it means we’re less impressionable, less open to malignant manipulation. Negatively, it...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Thanks to a means-tested health system and with my parents — seven children in tow — deemed too well off to receive government assistance, the idea of going to the doctor for the slightest — and...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] To borrow from John Lennon — and many others besides — another year is almost over and a new one is about to begin. Hitchens hit This is always an apt time for reflection, for taking stock of one’s...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] When it comes to explaining my continued reluctance to get the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine to those who have no issue with it, it’s like we’re on a different plain, nay planet, altogether. Where I see the...
@wwaycorrigan You can blame — or thank as the case may be — the Irish Independent for the following. As a recipient of that paper’s twice-daily newsletter, this helps me keep abreast of what’s making the headlines back home. The Indo, as the cool people call it,...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Stop comparing covid-19 to the flu. It’s much worse than that.’ So goes the retort from those who view the coronavirus pandemic as a significant threat to much of humanity, responding to those...
